SAR Image classification based on crfs with integration of local label context and pairwise label compatibility

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 300-306

  Ding, Yongke ^a   Li, Yuanxiang ^a   Yu, Wenxian ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conditional random fields (CRFs); context information; image classification; land cover; SAR

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS(CRFS); CONTEXT INFORMATION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; LAND COVER; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; SAR; SAR IMAGE CLASSIFICATIONS;

RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMANTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84891825610     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2262038     Document Type: Article

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